United States v. Bowen
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. Charles Bowen filed in the court below his petition alleging that the United States unlawfully withheld from him §270, being the amount due him from Sept. 13, 1876, when he was admitted as an inmate of the “ Soldiers’ Home,” to Dec. 4, 1877, upon his pension theretofore granted, by reason of a wound received by him in the military service of the United States.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. Charles Bowen filed in the court below his petition alleging that the United States unlawfully withheld from him §270, being the amount due him from Sept. 13, 1876, when he was admitted as an inmate of the “ Soldiers’ Home,” to Dec. 4, 1877, upon his pension theretofore granted, by reason of a wound received by him in the military service of the United States. That court found the following facts: — 1. The claimant was a private in Company B, Third Regiment United States Infantry, from the 9th of March, 1861, to the 9th of March, 1864, and during that time,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
delivered the opinion of the court. •
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of appellee for $264.60, for pension money withheld by the government.
The action of the government officers in that respect was founded on their opinion that Bowen, who was cared for in the Soldiers’ Home, belonged to the class who, by sect. 4820 of the revision, surrendered their pensions while inmates of the home. That section enacts that “the fact- that one to whom a pension has been granted for wounds or disability received in the military service has not contributed to the funds, of the…
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